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I hate to break up the cargo shorts and Kyler Murray conversation, but I figured someone cruising through this buttfuck of a thread might have an interest in an update from a few guys who've been to practice and talked to folks. -Rising is getting the majority of the 3rd string reps. -They've figured out how to use Duvernay and that means they're hitting him deep and he likes it. There's a shot he actually comes back. -Nelson might not graduate in the spring, and therefore the grad transfer scenario wouldn't be able to play out. No idea if valid, just passing on. -They love Dele, Cook, Sterns and Foster. Foster is getting looks at the role Jason Hall played late in the season and they think he can excel. -They love the 2 deep at CB including Boyce and Cook. -With Roach and Hager in their natural positions, lo and behold, they look like fucking badasses. -TE will be way, way better than the fucking puke spewed onto the field at that spot last year. -Nothing to make of the OL as a rational observer because of Anderson not being there and a slew of known injuries. -Carter/Young would be a legitimate combo if Carter had any gray matter between his ear lobes. -Collin Johnson is still the best WR on the team, no matter they float out there to motivate otherwise. -The staff is looser this year and the players are actually enjoying themselves. Take all that FWIW.

Just because he needs a booster doesn't mean he is a booster

In fairness, Trump did get to kill a guy on 5th Avenue this week.

"LA is what is generally considered a big city" like Vic Mackey's cholas are generally considered fat disgusting pigs?

Be a man and don't give a shit about style. Guys only criticize cargo shorts because they've heard women say it. I don't always wear them, but I can't count how many times I've toted cans of beer in them. Beer > Style

You can say that again.

Live look at that moment...

The state of despondent vexation that Trump is about slide into will result in some bombs being dropped in Syria and maybe even Iran. I'm not sure who gets fired first between Mueller, Rosenstein and Sessions, but they're all as good as gone. John Bolton is about to ejaculate tiny mustaches with tadpole tails all over his adult mustache. And this Congress has proudly displayed that they're perfectly willing to do absolutely nothing about any of it. The malaise of Trump's most recent chapter of brooding existentialism will have a cost. The times where he stumbled around and angrily mumbled about what he saw on television are about to be considered the good ol' days.

I have to tell you--I'm powerfully uncomfortable with raiding lawyers' offices. I recognize that in a lot of circumstances, the lawyer isn't acting as a lawyer, and so the materials aren't privileged. But an investigator needs to be real circumspect about that kind of thing.

This guy has posted about 20 differently charts today showing Tottenham’s growing revenue. Thought some of y’all might find it interesting: https://mobile.twitter.com/SwissRamble?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Why does this shock you guys? Look at all of the "quality" goods he has peddled over the years. Shitty vodka, shitty mail order steaks, water, and a self help real estate seminar disguised as a university. He's the white trash version of a multimillionaire. He puts gold leaf on everything, ketchup on well done steak, his maga hats have that puffy top like an old Boston Whaler hat from the early 90s, and his hairstyle if you can call his attempt to cover his baldness is even out of style. What in the world would make you think that his suit is going to be tailored or in style?

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Oh, they will be there.

Dont do this to yourself

My daughter, Grace. She passed at 23. I like seeing her everyday.

Should have put in sprinklers.

closetojumping has his own reasons, I know. But as for me, as a non-insider, it's hard not to notice how our most talented position group looked anything but for much of the season. Poor route running, complete absence of execution in the scramble drill, nonsensical rotations, stagnant player develpoment and regression of players like CJ. Oh, and that godforsaken offensive pass interference play we ran two or three weeks in a row. I said this on the other board, but there was maybe one regular season game against quality opposition where we saw a good consensus performance, and that was Kansas State (perhaps not coincidentally, one of the best offensive performances we put up). Oh, and for being the Passing Game Coordinator, there was a remarkable lack of coordination.

They're real tasty...

No reason to be a cunt. Especially over a silly, corporatized, test marketed, mass appeal movie. Also, you sound like a political zealot refusing to listen to anyone who dares give an opposing viewpoint which matter shatter your ideology. And like most political zealots you misrepresent your opponent's argument to try and score points. Never did I say Hux was "THE VILLAIN." I said he was A villain and supposed to be intimidating. An over-the-top villain, yes, but a villain none-the-less. Remind me, Rimbo, since you're clearly such a Star Wars expert. Were any of the bureaucrats in the OT the butt of ridiculous jokes? How about the guy who held ultimate power for the regular ol' humans in the Empire just like Hux in the new films, Grand Moff Tarkin? Disposable? Sure. Playthings to make Vader look more badass? Sure. Never just used for comic relief, though. Besides, Hux clearly isn't just another bureaucrat like those dudes from the OT. Those guys had all of like two minutes screen time. Hux is clearly a main character that the films invest serious time in. And there it is again, as I said before: The "it's just a bad film" rhetoric, which cannot possibly stand scrutiny against facts and often even a mere second viewing of the film. Are you even listening to yourself? Or am I getting trolled and I just don't know it? Facts? In regards to a fucking movie. A piece of art which can only be judged subjectively. And just to cap this off, here's the opinion of the greatest movie critic of all time on the worst Star Wars movie of all time: Ebert fucking LOVED Phantom Menace

Rimbo is doing a bit, right? No one can be this dumb. No plot holes? You have to be shitting me. - Slow speed space chase where, allegedly, the Resistance ships are faster than their pursuers, but never actually gain any ground over the course of the movie - Empire/First Order, who has never given the slightest fuck about stormtroopers, pulls all Tie-fighters back when they can't support them from the destroyers. 3 Ties blew up the entire bridge and hanger; how many would it have possibly taken to finish off the last Resistance ship? A dozen? - No one in the First Order thinks, "Gee, why don't we just lightspeed a destroyer in front of them and cut them off." - Lightspeed super weapon. Why didn't the black captain on the medical ship or the other smaller ship just take out the entire First Order fleet with their last ounce of fuel if this was always an option? How many Deathstars could have just been driven through in the past? - Holdo doesn't even give the crew a hint of the plan, causing completely unnecessary panic (Rose had to shock a few rebels trying to escape), stupid casino plans, and expectation of certain death. - Poe learns that sometimes retreat is the wise move by...retreating from an absolutely essential suicide mission. The fuck?? This part actually pissed me off. The options were: 1) Take out the battering ram, buying them time to radio in help, or 2) Die trying. That's it. If they failed, they all died. No one knew that ghost Luke would save the day. Not only did Poe run away, but Rose then took Finn's moment, and, as far as they knew, doomed them all. No one jumping on those rickety pieces of shit could have possibly expected to survive; it was a needed sacrifice. 1000% this. I could even look past what he did to Luke (Jedi who went to his almost certain death clinging to the hope that his father still had some good in him--only to have to faith reaffirmed--considers killing kid 10 years later) because I like the Ren/Rey angle, especially creating the only complicated character in Star Wars' history in Ren. But the movie around all that was just...dumb, even for a Star Wars movie.

Here's the interview from Friday that aired today on ESPNU. Ignore grammar mistakes. Playbook: How much momentum does Texas have after the bowl win against Mizzou? TH: Well I think the bowl game was momentous for us, and not just because we won a game, and I get that that is the bare minimum, or needs to be around here, winning a bowl game. The fact that we did it without all those guys that left early, without Malik Jefferson, without our starting TE, we were underdogs in the game playing an SEC team that had won six straight ballgames... I think it was a big lightbulb moment for the kids coming back. It was like "oh wow, we can do this, and we can do it in a big way." I think we won by a couple touchdowns... I don't remember the final score, but that gave a lot of credence to the way we do things. [on this spring] And I think there's a familiarity too. It's not like last February doing mat drills. It was the first time they'd ever done it so they didn't know what to expect. Every day was a new day for these guys, and now there is a lot more comfortability from our guys because they know what to expect. PB: Tom, to say your career has been a meteoric rise has been an understatement. Especially since getting in your car after the national championship at Ohio State and headed to take over as the new head coach for Houston. You guys have an unbelievable year there beating Florida State in the Peach Bowl. Another big year after beating Oklahoma, and then you get the keys to the car to one the most preeminent jobs in all of college football, maybe all of sport, that being the head coaching job at the University of Texas. Has it finally settled down for you? TH: A little, Yeah. I'd be lying to you if I said it didn't. Certainly we aren't going to get comfortable around here that's for sure. And for coaches probably the biggest settling down is that I'm in my house and I get to see my wife and kids every day. Where, this time of year last year they were still in houston finishing school and I was trying to buy a house. I was renting Major Applewhite's old house, and there was just a lot of loose ends. This season has felt like a normal offseason, if you will, now we've still got a ton of work to do on our team and on the field. And I think you're right, this is the best job in college sports, and we're here for a reason, and the reason is, this place had gone through the worst three year stretch in its very storied history. That doesn't get fixed overnight and we realize that. It also went through a ton of instability, with four athletic directors, three different head coaches, and two different presidents. So there was a lot of upheaval in a three to four year period that now, with Chris Del Conte here, and Greg Fenves settled into his role, and myself here it definitely feels like there's a sense of normalcy here now. PB: One of the things you were doing this time last year was laying the ground work for the recruiting class that you'd signed in December and February. You mentioned that one of your priorities was making sure that the best players in Texas come to Texas, and that was not the case for the last few years. It was partially your fault (laughs), because of guys like JT Barrett and that sort of thing. How did you then sell the best players in Texas on coming to Texas? TH: When we first got here three of the top ten players in the state of Texas were going to Ohio State. It's not like they were going to A&M or Oklahoma, they were going to Ohio State. I think non of the top ten were signing with an in state school. That's bizzaro world to me, I didn't understand it, that didn't make sense to me that's not the way things are supposed to be. So, the one of the things I'm proudest of is I've surrounded myself with unbelievable people in this program, and a big priority for me was people that have relationships within the state. We've signed as a collective staff over 300 sum odd Texas high school football players at our different stops along the way. We have 80 something combined years recruiting just the state of Texas alone. So, I think that was big in getting the foot in the door, and it's all about relationships. Some of the most positive feedback I get from some of the guys I signed in last years class was that when they came and saw us, it wasn't always a sales pitch. There wasn't always the hard sell. It was "how is your mom? How are your grades? How's your girlfriend? How's track practice?" It was true caring and involvement in relationships. So much so that we had committed almost all of that 2018 class before we had coached a game here at the University of Texas. Then you go 6-6 in the regular season and I don't think we had any decommits from any in state kids. We had, I think, two over the course of the cycle, and they were both from out of state. You don't do that if you don't have great relationships with those kids, their parents, and their high school coaches. PB: One more question on Texas and your vision of this particular program. I've always said that to be fair to the football coach a program has to finance its expectations. The expectations at Texas are always going to be at the lofty. They're always going to be at the pinnacle. You have to win the national championship to reach the expectation of this fan base, of this institution because it's been done before. And the resources are available. Did this job become attractive to you when they were courting you, because there were a number of programs courting you, was this attractive because the resources were in place or because you thought it was the best platform to scale the mountain? TH: A little bit of both. I think, certainly when you talk about college football, is part of the resource is your recruiting base. That was obviously a huge attraction to this job. The resources were there that I thought probably had been misallocated in different areas. We had fallen behind in the facilities game, we had fallen behind in certain areas from a leadership standpoint. But that made it maybe a little bit more attractive to me. I'll never forget, and I credit our president Greg Fenves and at the time our AD Mike Perrin, when I went to talk to them there were, myself, and two people in the room. That really said a lot to me, because I had heard about all the different cooks that were in the kitchen, or maybe previously had been at Texas, or hands in the cookie jar. Whatever phrase you want to use. There were two people that showed up to talk to me. That made me think, "Hey, maybe this place has it figured out. They've done a lot of soul searching, a lot of evaluating, and they realize what needs to be done." Greg Fenves said, "Tom, we want you to be the CEO of our football program." And I haven't been told no yet. Now I've been very calculated in the things I've asked for, but we had to get our staff, our support staff up to championship standards. We are slowly but surely getting the facilities up to championship status. But all those things they had promised me have come true. So the resources were there, but the commitment to the very aligned (there it is) and singularly, allotment of those resources. PB: Part of being CEO is figuring out your role. You called plays in the bowl game, and it's not something you had done as a head coach, is that something that you would look to do going forward? TH: I don't know. We are going to evaluate like we evaluate everything in spring practice. From coaches to players and techniques we are going to evaluate everything. If I feel like I can help in that area, then I will. Part of the reason I did it was I wanted to feel what my offensive staff was going through. Not that I wasn't involved in game day, but when you're that involved in practice and preparation you have a much better perspective of it. If I am going to evaluate one side of the ball I thought it was fair that I put myself in their shoes. We had three weeks to prepare and we had 280 yards of offense, so let's not think that Tom Herman calling plays is the end all be all here. [banter]... And there has yet to be a coach were you're starting a true freshman right tackle, true freshman tight end, or a grad transfer tight end that started that game, this is at Texas mind you, a true freshman tailback, a true freshman quarterback, and a left tackle that was a true sophomore that had only played like 30 snaps or so. That's not a recipe for lighting the world on fire, and I get that, and I appreciate our administrations patience on that side of the ball because we're developing them. The best thing about true freshman is they become sophomores and have time to develop. Yes there are teams that have succeeded with a true freshman quarterback, like the two in the national championship game. But they have so many elite peaces around them when you see that happen. Or you have a true freshman tailback but you probably have a junior or senior QB. So the combination of all of those guys having to play a significant role on offense, and I think we have to get better at coaching them too. We've got to figure out what we can do with them. We've gotta narrow our focus. You know as coaches, I think the fist reaction is "maybe we can do this, or that" and the next thing you know you have a book of plays instead of a playbook. Just a bunch of plays with no rhyme or reason, no system, no compliments to each other. So I think that was a big focus this offseason. This is what we believe in. This is what we think these guys can do now that we know all of them, and this is how we are going to develop these guys in these areas.

The case of when a driver wants to "let" you cut across lanes (while your view is obstructed) to merge into oncoming traffic, only for them to wave you like " hurry & go"... In that moment I think, "I'd would rather be the safe asshole than the obedient one that gets t-boned while the obstructing vehicle goes on as if they didn't initiate the wreck"...

What do you care? You're just a ghost.

Touche dude! I know this is not a cover, but everyone should watch this. This is a sound check in 1986 back when he was still using cocaine and drinking heavy. He looks lit in this video, but his playing is so accurate & pure it's like your listening to his album. Probably no other artist I miss more than SRV.

The building's already full of people who suck on the public tit all day and only pause to shit themselves. Don't see any need for a new policy to let a baby on the floor.

He is the epitome of the lesson on how to become worth a small fortune. (Narrator: You start with a large fortune).

I wish we could all live in the mountains at high altitude. That's where I see myself in five years.

Gave this one a dirt nap last night. First kill with my new 300 Blackout. Dropped him in his tracks at about 80 yards. Don’t know where I hit him as I wasn’t going to crawl all over him to find out.

Out this weekend, 15 knot south wind, gulf was rolling 2-3ft. Coming out of the Marco river this guy followed us right off the stern for a few minutes, there was actually a young calf as well, you can kind of make it out just to the upper left. From the cuts on the dorsal fin it seems it may have gotten too close to other boats in the past.

686+ 3"bbl

I'm going to learn this for Guitar Center visits. Hope I can nail the vocals

Nah, I have a penchant for buggery and We don’t want him.

For decades, schools had the luxury of a monopoly on the best and brightest female college graduates in the country. Fortunately the rest of the labor market is not so overtly sexist anymore and such a monopoly no longer exists. Problem is, without a monopoly of that labor, the cost of employing the same caliber of teachers has gone up significantly. Unfortunately, teacher wages have remained flat for basically that entire time. You’re like Tahoe’s great great granddaddy in Hazel Green, AL complaining that the costs of operating his plantation have gone up since 1865 and his revenues haven’t kept pace.

first of all, to understand what happened to shaggy, you gotta understand who shaggybevo was. now shaggy was born to a three-legged bitch of a mother, and he was always ashamed of this, man. and then right after that he's adopted by this man, blacklab. he's a small-time gun-runner and a fight promoter. so he puts shaggy into training. they see shaggy’s good. he is damn good. but then he had the fight of his life. they pit him against his old friend kevin morgan. and shaggy said "no man that's my brother, I can't fight kevin" but blacklab made him fight anyway, and shaggy, he killed kevin. shaggy said "that's it!" and he called off all his fights, and he started doing crack, and he freaked out. then in a rage, he collapsed, and his heart no longer beat. wow.

I think this one is better. It has the Cold War theme, though not at the level of nuclear annihilation, but is significantly funnier, and has the quintessential 1980s soundtrack.

Geez. That intro tone is butter af. Completely unrelated to butter, I brought that DSL40C Vintage home: I've wanted to add a DSL40C to the family since playing with a friend's, but after getting the Katana the urgency to get a beater on this side of the tone spectrum wasn't all that high. I stopped by the Guitar Center up north, as I am wont to do, and they had this dude hiding away from the used section under the Gibson display. The Vintage Limited Edition is pretty hard to come by, but despite being only an appearance difference, I'm a sucker for limited editions. My plan is to drop a Celestion Vintage 30 into it for a start. Here's an updated shot of the boys: Excelsior.

Buddy Holly

The average college graduate will receive social security. And you continue to refer to tenure despite having already been told there’s no such thing. And while the time off doesn’t come in large chunks like it does for teachers, my friends who are teachers work as many if not more hours in a year than my full-time employees.

My grampa WB grew up on a small farm in Pecan Valley, TX before joining the Army MP during WWII. Spent some time in the Phillipenes before the war ended and he then went to Japan and arrested General Honma for ordering the Bataan Death March. After the war he graduated from A&M and moved to Fort Worth where he managed the Stripling & Cox on Lancaster for many years. He married my grandmother and they adopted my mom and he taught me to fish and to never meet a stranger. After his retirement he would work part time as an usher at the FWSSR until his passing in 1999. He may not have been famous or have a wikipedia page, but my pawpaw WB Carroll was one BMF Texan

Their players are going to be slowed by having to carry around all their women's shit in their jockstrap

I always wanna make the playoffs. The last 20 years as a cowboys fan makes me understand that's an accomplishment not to be taken for granite.

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